CURIOSITY. EXPLORATION. REFLECTION.
Join us on Friday, August 3rd from 5-8pm as we celebrate the First Friday Art Crawl in downtown Boone, NC. Come experience our 6 gallery spaces housed with art that inspires. We will have music, art-making activities and refreshements.
About the Exhibitions
Art Department Faculty Biennial
June 7 – November 2 / Gallery A, Petti/Peiser Gallery
The Department of Art Faculty Biennial showcases the work of Appalachian State University’s talented multidisciplinary faculty. This non-juried exhibition offers student, faculty and staff, and the extended Boone community a chance to engage with the creative ideas and art practices being explored and taught within the university.
Flowstones: Corinne Jones
June 7 – November 2 / Mayer Gallery
A flowstone is created by mineral deposits laid down by water, slowly, quietly, in one place, over a long time. Flowstone grows approximately one inch every one hundred years. In one hundred years, how many societal changes have occurred in one place? Flowstones is a site-specific installation that invites contemplation.
Looming in the Shadows of Łódź: Leslie Starobin, Tamar Segev and Ori Segev
July 5 – December 7 / Hodges Gallery
On the 75th anniversary of their relatives’ deportation from the Lodz Ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau, a family of artists travels to Poland to uncover their roots. Employing narrative and visual storytelling, representation and abstraction, still and mediated imagery, the artists aspire to preserve their family’s multi-continental migration and wartime legacy.
Congregations: Sarina Angell
July 5 – December 7 / Community Gallery
Beauty is a powerful ally in an unjustly damaged world. Sarina Angell gently guides us to look closely at her delicate artwork and take that attention to detail into the world, finding beauty and collecting delight as pivot points to the devastating events that can otherwise consume our thoughts.
A Long and Slow Surrender: Wendy Young
July 5 – December 7 / Bickers Gallery
Wendy Young never met a stranger; many people she meets invite her into their lives, encouraging her to document their worlds. The worlds Wendy is welcomed into often clash with one another. That’s the point—crossing borders by listening to one another even when we disagree.
